Special Agent Dale Cooper (Character) Special Agent Dale Cooper (Character) from "Twin Peaks" (1990) The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. There may be more photos available for this character. To select more photos to be displayed in this character's gallery, click the Edit Photos link. Overview Special Agent Dale Cooper is a skilled agent working for the FBI... See more » Alternate Names: Agent Cooper / Dale Cooper / FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper Filmography (as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper) ... aka "The Missing Pieces" - USA (alternative title) ... aka "Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me: The Missing Pieces" - USA (poster title) ... aka "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Deleted Scenes" - USA (closing credits title) ... aka "Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery" - USA (promotional title) ... aka "NBC's Saturday Night" - USA (complete title) ... aka "SNL" - USA (informal title) ... aka "SNL 25" - USA (alternative title) ... aka "Saturday Night" - USA (first season title) ...

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Pool Party (TV Series) Himself 2000 So Graham Norton (TV Series) Himself - Guest 1999 Intimate Portrait (TV Series documentary) Himself 1995 The Making of 'Showgirls' (TV Short documentary) Himself Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 1991 Today (TV Series) TV Commercial (directed by David Lynch ) for Georgia Coffee (1991 Japan). See more » Publicity Listings: 12 Interviews | 15 Articles | 4 Pictorials | 22 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: (On Dune (1984)) First film, first big break. It was a book that I loved when I was 15, when I read it for the very first time in '74 or '75, whenever I first came to it. It was kind of a fairytale that it ended up being me, because I was nowhere near Los Angeles when it happened. I was in Seattle, working in the theater, and I'd been out of school for less than a year. Looking back, it was an ...

See more » Trivia: In one of his roles, as the fictional Mayor of Portland, Oregon, on the Independent Film Channel series Portlandia (2011), he co-stars with Sarah McLachlan , who spells her last name the same as his father, Kent McLachlan, but is no relation. See more » Trademark: Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper, A Hero For All Times Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper, A Hero For All Times Pin it Share When FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper first drove into the small, secret-laden town of Twin Peaks, it set viewers off on a wild adventure for two short seasons of a truly special show. Coop quickly became more than simply a quirky, fun to watch, interesting character: he became a television hero, and one whose impact can still be felt throughout the television universe. Played perfectly by Kyle MacLachlan, Agent Cooper quickly became a TV favorite in the early 1990s. His oddball detective style, his quiet genius, his philosophical musings, life lessons, and fascination with the Tibetan monks immediately made him a crowd favorite. Oh, and coffee. Boy, did Coop ever love his coffee. View photos And cherry pie.

But Agent Cooper was more than a well-drawn character. He was also more than the archetypal “good cop”, of which the 90′s television landscape was littered. He was a return to the truly good human being, one whose morality served as a strong, and never-breaking basis for his decision making. Coop held the best interests of others at heart, and due to past incidences in his life, he would never put others in harm’s way. He would take risks, but they were risks that he had to take. He would never willingly put someone else in danger. View photos Enjoying a deeper philosophical understanding of the world around him, it was the randomness and the musings brought to us by Coop that has made him impossibly endearing. His one-sided conversations with the never-seen “Diane”, hanging upside down in his hotel room, his ideas of giving yourself a surprise gift every day, his rock throwing crime solving techniques…all of these things brought him beyond the hard-nosed and intelligent cop, and made him so much more to us. As the outsider, Cooper was our guide to the town of Twin Peaks.

It was his uncanny observations, and unraveling of the secrets within the town, that brought him closer to solving the murder of Laura Palmer, bringing him closer to the townsfolk, finding love, and uncovering the secrets of the nefarious Black Lodge. View photos Over the run of Twin Peaks, Dale Cooper made us smile, made us wonder, had us laughing, had us feeling his pain, and had us cheering for him every step of the way. He was a lovable hero, opening the doors for the philosopher hero that became more common after his appearances on the small screen. Think of brilliant radio DJ Chris from Northern Exposure, a man cut from the same cloth as Cooper, and beloved by audiences in the same way. View photos Seeing a hero like Coop made us want more from our television characters. It wasn’t good enough that someone was smart or good-looking. They had to be clever, and witty, and kind-hearted. They had to have depth, and Coop represented an ushering in of a hero that was more than one-dimensional. View photos Twin Peaks transformed television in innumerable ways.

One of them was by providing us with a protagonist that offered depth, humanity, and a love of diners that is second-to-none in TV history. I think on behalf of all Twin Peaks fans, it is a simple and true statement to say that we are all looking forward to the return of Dale Cooper in 2017. Two years was not enough of this complex, enduring, and endearing character. We want more Coop. Kyle MacLachlan - TV Celebrities - ShareTV Kyle MacLachlan Kyle MacLachlan's Main TV Roles Show BIOGRAPHY: Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (born February 22, 1959) is an American actor. Born and a raised in Yakima, Washington. His mother, Catherine (née Stone), was a public relations director, and his father, Kent Alan MacLachlan, was a stockbroker and lawyer. He has Scottish, Cornish and Irish ancestry. He has two younger brothers named Craig and Kent, both of whom live in the Pacific Northwest. MacLachlan graduated from the University of Washington in 1982.

The darkly handsome MacLachlan made his feature debut when he starred in the big-budget 'David Lynch' adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (1984), but only enjoyed real success after appearing in a second Lynch project, the moody and perverse classic Blue Velvet (1986), his most famous role. The following year saw MacLachlan appearing as an otherworldly FBI agent in the cult classic sci-fi film The Hidden (1987). This turned out to be a sign of things to come, as MacLachlan soon took on another oddball G-man, Special Agent Dale Cooper, on Lynch's cryptic ABC TV series Twin Peaks (1990) and reprising that role for Lynch's 1992 prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. MacLachlan's remarkable work as Agent Cooper earned him a Golden Globe award and a pair of Emmy nominations, as well as steady work in television and films, including a part as 'Ray Manzarek' in the 'Oliver Stone' film The Doors (1991) and villain Cliff Vandercave in the live action version of The Flintstones (1994).

His career took a hit after he appeared in the infamous flop Showgirls (1995). However, MacLachlan returned to prominence in the early 2000s with a reoccurring role on HBO's Sex and the City (1998), as well as a starring role in the TV movie The Spring (2000) and a turn as Claudius in director 'Michael Almereyda' version of Hamlet (2000). MacLachlan later took advantage of his resemblance to 'Cary Grant' when he played the classic actor's spirit in Touch of Pink (2004). MacLachlan has remained a popular actor with independent filmmakers, and he has also been a familiar face on television, appearing on the ABC-TV shows In Justice (2006) and Desperate Housewives (2004). In 1993, Kyle met model Linda Evangelista on a fashion shoot for Barney's and the two began dating. Evangelista separated from her husband, Gerard Marie. The two appeared in further fashion spreads in Vogue magazine. Around 1998 or 1999, the two were supposedly engaged.

The couple split up however, when Evangelista met French soccer star Fabien Barthez and she became pregnant by him. MacLachlan later married in 2002. MacLachlan lives in Manhattan with his wife, Desiree Gruber, an executive producer of Project Runway, and their son, Callum Lyon MacLachlan (b. July 26, 2008), in Los Angeles. The couple have two small dogs (a Jack Russell terrier and a Yorkie/Chihuahua mixed breed) and out of "probably too much affection" have created a website about their dogs as well as a TV series popular on YouTube. A dedicated wine lover, MacLachlan is partners with vintner Eric Dunham in Pursued by Bear, a winery in Washington's Columbia Valley. The name, suggested over dinner by Fred Savage, comes from a stage direction ("Exit, pursued by a bear") in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. TRIVIA: Graduated 1977 from Eisenhower High School in Yakima, Washington.

Often stars in 'David Lynch (I)' (qv) films such as _Dune (1984)_ (qv), _Blue Velvet (1986)_ (qv), _Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)_ (qv), and the television series _"Twin Peaks" (1990)_ (qv), originated by Lynch and 'Mark Frost (I)' (qv). (1992-1998) Dated model 'Linda Evangelista' (qv), whom he met on the set of an ad for Barney's. They were engaged for three years. Kyle and his wife, 'Desiree Gruber' (qv), became the parents of their first child, a son named Callum Lyon MacLachlan, on July 25, 2008. Callum weighed in at 8 lbs. 6 oz. Married Desiree Gruber at Plymouth Congregational Church in Miami, Florida (her hometown). Graduated University of Washington with a bachelors degree in Fine Arts (1982). He claims to be a direct descendant of 'Johann Sebastian Bach' (qv) on his mother's side.

(August 2001) Became engaged to his girlfriend of two years, fashion publicist Desiree Gruber. Related sites for this celeb Kyle MacLachlan - Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor - Biography.com » quotes “I never really asked [David Lynch] why he wanted me for the role of Dale Cooper. I think he was comfortable working with me. We had done 'Blue Velvet,' we were friends, and I think he felt like I was the guy. It took a little convincing, because I was very young when we did that, and people were like 'I don't know.' It kind of added to the mystique to the character.” “When I was little, my grandparents lived not [far] from Portland in a little town called Vancouver, so we would go there frequently. It's changed so much from that period of time, which was late '60s, maybe early '70s.” “When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to [do] different roles—do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc.

I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.” Kyle MacLachlan Synopsis Born on February 22, 1959, in Yakima, Washington, Kyle MacLachlan went on to make his film debut as an actor in the 1984 sci-fi epic Dune, directed by David Lynch . He and Lynch continued to work together in the film Blue Velvet and TV series Twin Peaks, which would become a critically acclaimed cult classic and earn MacLachlan Emmy nods and a Golden Globe win. The actor has gone on to star in an array of film and TV projects that include The Doors, Showgirls, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives and Portlandia. It was announced that Twin Peaks will return to the airwaves in 2016. Background Kyle MacLachlan was born on February 22, 1959, in Yakima, Washington. He took to acting early on, playing out scenes from the Hardy Boys novels he read as a child and working in theatrical productions.

He parlayed his interest into serious study (with an additional stint working in a sawmill), and by the early 1980s had earned a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Washington in Seattle. Working With David Lynch MacLachlan would eventually come to meet and work with filmmaker David Lynch , known for the movies Eraserhead (1977) and The Elephant Man (1980), a work based on the life of Joseph Merrick . MacLachlan made his screen debut in Lynch’s 1984 work Dune, based on the layered sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert. In the screen version, MacLachlan played Paul Atreides, a princely figure who leads a revolt on a desert planet. While the film was not generally well-received, the director and actor meshed. The two went on to work together on 1986’s Blue Velvet, a controversially noir-ish look at a small town with shadowy underpinnings, with MacLachlan portraying a young man who returns home. The film co-starred Isabella Rossellini , Laura Dern and Dennis Hopper , and earned Lynch an Oscar nomination for directing.

MacLachlan and Lynch reunited again for what would become arguably the actor’s defining role, that of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in the ABC series Twin Peaks, which debuted in 1990. Peaks had a murder mystery at its core and featured a distinctive, not readily defined sensibility that would allow the show to live on as a cult classic despite being on the air for less than two full seasons. MacLachlan also earned two Emmy nominations and won a Golden Globe for his performance on the series. 'Sex and the City' and 'Housewives' MacLachlan's earlier roles established buzz that would last, as he was cast in an array of films during the 1990s that included the Jim Morrison biopic The Doors (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), The Flintstones (1994), Showgirls (1995) and One Night Stand (1997).

The new millennium saw the actor take on more roles, in movies like Hamlet (2000), Miranda (2002), Touch of Pink (2004), in which he portrayed the spirit of Cary Grant , and Mao’s Last Dancer (2010). He also made his Broadway debut in a 2003 revival of the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker, co-starring Patrick Stewart (who was also in Dune) and Aidan Gillen. Though big-screen parts continued to appear, MacLachlan had carved out a space for himself on the small screen as well, appearing in TV movies as well as a number of popular series. Starting in 2000, he starred for a time in Sex and the City, portraying the hubby of Charlotte York ( Kristin Davis ), with the fictitious couple eventually divorcing over their differences. 2006 saw MacLachlan featured in the legal drama In Justice and also joining the cast of the hit soap Desperate Housewives as Orson Hodge, a mainstay character for multiple seasons who was the second hubby of Bree Van de Kamp ( Marcia Cross ).

'Portlandia' and the Return of 'Twin Peaks' In 2011, MacLachlan was able to return to his Pacific Northwest roots, taking on a recurring role as mayor in the improv-oriented sketch series Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. MacLachlan has also been featured in the drama The Good Wife and the action-packed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In fall of 2014, it was announced that Twin Peaks would be returning to TV, with Showtime producing a nine-part miniseries slated to air in 2017. MacLachlan, along with some original cast members, will return. Lynch was slated to direct as well, though in spring of 2015 he pulled out of the show due to ongoing disputes over pay. Personal Life During the ‘90s, MacLachlan was engaged to supermodel Linda Evangelista , though the two never wed. He and Desiree Gruber, who would go on to work as an executive producer for Heidi Klum 's Project Runway, married in 2002. The couple has a son, Callum.

MacLachlan is also a golf lover and vino aficionado who has his own Washington-based winery named Pursued by Bear. Kyle MacLachlan interview GQ August 1992 GQ, (for the modern man), August 1992, Volume 62, Number 8, p. 134- 137, p. 197 Playing innocents drawn to darkness.like Twin Peaksï¿½s Dale Cooper and Kafkaï¿½s Josef K- Kyle MacLachlan is a Boy Scout navigating the netherworld Kyle MacLachlanï¿½s tobacco tin is the size of a dessert plate. Itï¿½s full of rich, dark stuff that smells like peat, and heï¿½s lost without it. Heï¿½s forever patting his pockets, hunting it down. Theresa, the assistant costume designer here in Prague, on the film set of a new British version of The Trial, keeps sneeking the tin away from him because it makes an unsightly lump in the dark suits he wears as Kafkaï¿½s tormented hero, Josef K.

When MacLachlan finds the tin, his long frame sinks to the ground; he kneels over it reverentially, pinching out perfect portions, rolling tight, carefully controlled cigarettes. The golf-course greenskeeper for whom MacLachlan worked during the summers back in Yakima, Washington, taught him how to roll, and now the habit suits him. Not because he needs to save money (the reason most people roll their own) - with four movies coming out in the next few months, heï¿½s doing all right. No, rolling his own gives MacLachlan a chance to elevate the common act of smoking into an exotic ritual: such preparation, such concentration, such devotion to a small, deadly vice. When he rolls, heï¿½s a good boy methodically doing a bad thing - which is, after all, his specialty. MacLachlan is a star because he can do one thing better than anybody else: play decent guys with time-shares in the netherworld. Jeffrey Beaumont, in Blue Velvet (1986), FBI Agent Dale Cooper, in the hyper-series Twin Peaks (1990-91): These guys are Dudley Do-Rights with dark closets in their soul.

"Kyle plays innocents who are interested in the mysteries of life," says David Lynch, who directed him in Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Dune (1984), MacLachlanï¿½s debut film. "Heï¿½s the person you trust enough to go into a strange world with." "He has the ease and charm that has gone out of film acting since the days of Jimmy Stewart," says David Jones, director of The Trial. "When I look at the dailies now, I really think I`m watching one of the great guys from the Forties." But unlike Jimmy Stewart, who always meant everything he said, MacLachlan takes a simple sentence and makes us think it means something, almost anything, else. "Diane," Agent Cooper says in his deep, sincere voice, taping notes for his unseen secretary, "Iï¿½m holding in my hand a box of small chocolate bunnies." Suddenly, Easter will never be the same. MacLachlan has a knack for twisting the "normal" knob upto 11, for pumping the most-banal acts (drinking a cup of damn fine coffee) full of nitrous oxide.

Itï¿½s his ability to undermine the obvious meanings of the world that makes thim perfect for an age in which you canï¿½t believe in anything. MacLachlan is playing Agent Cooper again, in the new film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. A prequel to the TV series, the movies depicts the seven days leading up to Laura Palmerï¿½s murder; Cooper is seen in flashbacks, investigating a similar killing in another part of Washington State. MacLachlan had to be talked into this one: He felt the series "ended badly" because Lynch and company had compromised their vision. "David intended to keep the investigation of Lauraï¿½s murder going on for the length of the series," he says. "There was such an outcry to resolve it, we got ourselves caught in the squeeze." The show also veered from a story that was grounded in reality - the sordid double life of a prom queen - to a ridiculous tale of alien possession. By the last episode, even Peaks Freaks had canceled their viewing parties and switched off their sets. MacLachlan and Lynch promise that the spooky, sexy zing of the early episodes will be back in the film.

(Like every Lynch project, it drew an equal number of cheers and boos at the Cannes film festival, in May.) If Fire fizzles, however, the rest of this fallï¿½s Kyle MacLachlan film fest should revive his spirits. In next monthï¿½s Where the Day Takes You, he plays Ted, a rancid drug dealer who pumps iron in front of a mirror and jams needles full of heroin between his toes. In October, heï¿½s an expectant father flummoxed by some morally cloudy urges in Rich In Love, a southern-family drama by the Driving Miss Daisy team. And in The Trial, due late this fall, he stars a hotshot bank clerk plunged into a living nightmare - heï¿½s accused of committing a crime everyone else knows about but no one will explain. The Trial is coup for MacLachlan. His is the leading role in one of the classics of modern literature, and it brings him full circle: The alienation and irony of The Trial helped set the stage for Twin Peaks.

Costarring such venerable actors as Anthony Hopkins and Jason Robards, the movie fulfills every dream MacLachlan ever had when he was doing high school plays back in Yakima and Robards was his hero. "Mr. Euge Oï¿½Neill," MacLachlan calls him. So why does MacLachlan look so depressed? It could be his work schedule: Halfway through a nine-week shoot, he hunches over his thick, ratty script twelve hours a day, six days a week. Heï¿½s in every scene. It could be the character of Josef K: The Harold Pinter script is uncompromisingly bleak, a Josef is a man pushed to the limits of despair. Or it could be the city of Prague itself, which for all its flowers and splending buildings is also choked with smoke. The yellow coal haze that hover over Prague makes Los Angelesï¿½ air look healthy. Run your hand down a tree trunk, and it comes away black. Cigarette smoke hangs like velvet curtains in the hip new nightclubs and coffeehouses. Smoke is the symbol of Prague: Emotions and events her seems densely layered, partially obscured.

Outside, vendors gleefully hawk Russian military paraphernalia on every street corner. Vï¿½clav Havel governs in the castle on the hill, and thereï¿½s nascent freedom in the air. But inside, in the mazelike abandoned building thatï¿½s serving as the courthouse set, the smoke is thick. In real life, this building has been everything from a Jesuit college to a Nazi headquarters; the movie set represents just one more phase. Hollow-eyed extras mill in the halls, puffing away as if the camera crew were a firing squad. Prague is the perfect setting for MacLachlanï¿½s inner dramas: Heï¿½s in transition, too. "Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, itï¿½s very odd for me," he says. "I tend to take it very personally. I canï¿½t help but feel that stuff that comes to me - by chance or on purpose, whatever - tends to reflect where I am as a human being. The characters that Iï¿½ve been doing lately have so much torment and searching and questioning.

Itï¿½s where I am right now as a man - Iï¿½m continually questioning who I am, and playing these characters perpetuates that. Itï¿½s like Iï¿½m in the middle of a tunnel, and I donï¿½t know where itï¿½s leading." "Kyle, weï¿½re not quite ready for you," says the first assistant director, "but David [Jones] suggested I show you the corridor where youï¿½ll be walking in the next shot." MacLachlan lifts his head from the tobacco tin. "I think Iï¿½ll be okay," he says pleasantly. "One corridor is pretty much like another." He isnï¿½t kidding. For the past eight hours, walking up and down the Jesuit-college corridors is all MacLachlan has done. This is certainly the most economical way to shoot - the film is budgeted at about $8 million, shockingly low by Hollywood standards - but itï¿½s not the most interesting way to perform. Walk down these steps and look up. Cut. Walk into this room and look down this hall. Cut. Now walk the other half. Cut.

No wonder the crew members keep praising MacLachlanï¿½s even temper. "Can you imagine what this would be like with someone like Alec Baldwin?" says one. "Itï¿½d be a nightmare!" MacLachlan approaches the walking scenes with the same thoroughness he invests in everything else. Heï¿½s the kind of guy whoï¿½d pack a week early for a Boy Scout trip, stowing all the right gear neatly in is backpack. He likes to investigate the possibilities: How much anger can Josef K show? How far can anyone go in conversation? He takes intensive acting classes and has dabbled in meditation. He chews on self-help books (Iron John and Fire in the Belly were on his list last year; his conversation is laced with Robert Bly-speak). He plays golf and basketball, guitar and keyboards. He cooks complicated Italian dinners, sending friends out to scour L.A. for just the right Parmesan cheese. He frets. While shooting Dune, he worried that the black rubber suits the characters wore to retain body moisture in the desert had no head coverings. "You have to ask yourself, How can that work? If you really think about it logically.

These things always bothered me; I get obsessed with these details." When he played keyboardist Ray Manzarek in Oliver Stoneï¿½s The Doors, he learned all the fingerings to every song but "The End," and then wouldnï¿½t you know it, the only song we actually see him play is "The End"? "I got some of the notes, but the rest, missed `em," he says. "Which makes me feel bad." At a time when certain grown males are out waggling their weenies in the woods, trying to figure out how to be men, MacLachlan seems to present an answer. Heï¿½s curious, honest, protective, playful - your mother would be thrilled to meet him. Tall, dark, almost classically handsome (except for that inverted-apostrophe of a chin, which is more pronounced in person), he has hazel eyes that go green when he grins, and thin black hair that somehow survives the pounds of gelrequired to achieve Cooperï¿½s and Josef Kï¿½s sleek seal look. "Lots of young actors have a smug quality that ruins the handsomeness," says Bruce Bereford, who directed Rich In Love.

"They always know what to wear, their hair is always perfect, their muscles always rippling, and theyï¿½re fantastically boring. Kyle wear his handsomeness easily; he doesnï¿½t carry on. And he is not a boring man. Heï¿½s ordinary but interesting, which is difficult to find." Agent Cooper returns, in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me "Kyle plays all these asexual, conflicted. offbeat, idiosyncratic characters, but thatï¿½s not him at all," says Janet Koo, a director friend. "Heï¿½s very sexual. Women fall in love with him instantly. And heï¿½s kind. When he was in Tokyo, his Tokyo fan club waited for days in his hotel lobby. These little Japanese girls wouldnï¿½t go away. Even though Kyle was exhausted, he kept worrying that they were missing school." He sounds like a Hollywood Howdy Doody. But MacLachlanï¿½s characters have their dark underside, and he has a few quirks of his own. The same people who comment on his maturity seem surprised to learn heï¿½s 33.

Instead, he seem like a very grown-up 18-year-old, full of energie and goofiness. Go for a walk with him on a sunny Sunday afernoon, and he talks earnestly about previous European visits, takes your arm when you cross the street, stops a pickpocket from lifting your wallet and occasionally haws huge wads of spit onto the sidewalk. "What do we like to do together?" David Lynch sings out nasally. "I have a pretty good cappuccino machine, and anytime he gets the urge, he comes on over. We talk about the problems associated with getting a good cup of coffee." "Kyle loves both Kate Bush and Led Zeppelin," says Michael Ontkean, who played Sheriff Harry S.Truman on Twin Peaks. "I think that says it all." (Do these guys ever come out of character?) "Four or five of us were having dinner together one night in the Edwardian Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York, and Kyle persuaded us to strip down to the underwear," Janet Koo says. "We were laughing, drinking wine, and he said, 'Itï¿½s really hot in here.

I think itï¿½de be fine if we took off our clothes.' The waiter was a little astonished, but the chef came out of the kitchen and joined in." (MacLachlan, of course, is a boxers man.) MacLachlan also keeps secrets. Ask him where he lives, and he tells you about his house in Venice, a mile back from the beach, an L.A. neighbourhood where "youï¿½re not dependent on the car." He neglects to mention, however, the house he just bought in the Hollywood Hills, a rambling Cape Cod-style wood-and-brick birthday cake with huge fireplaces and a pool sunk into the hillside.Askhim how he tore some cartilage in his knee, and he says, "Walking up a steep driveway." But press him long enough, and heï¿½ll admit the driveway happened to run beside a furiously burning house, and since he was driving by with then-girlfriend Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna on Twin Peaks), and since he was wearing a hooded flight jacket, he hopped out and grabbed a garden hose from some poor guy in a bathrobe who was trying to save the house next door.

Why didnï¿½t he mention the burning house right away? "Well, I didnï¿½t want to ... I donï¿½t know. It was a very odd experience." The secrets spill over his love life as well. MacLachlanï¿½s two famous ex-girlfriends a fueled with a mysterious sexiness of their own. Before he dated Lara Flynn Boyle for two and a half years, he lived with Laura Dern, his Blue Velvet costar, for three and a half. As befits a gentleman, he wonï¿½t kiss and tell. "I really fight for my privacy," he says firmly. But he wants to give good interview and feels guilty offering nothing. "During the course of my time with Laura Dern, we studied together with an acting teacher in Lenox, Massachussetts, "he finally says. "It was really deep emotional work, going back and unlocking some stuff from childhood, adolescence, those kind of painful things. That was her style, and it still drives me." And Lara Flynn Boyle? "Her working seemed to be intuitive. There was a certain rawness. And she seemed really comfortable with it.

When Iï¿½m working, thereï¿½s a lot of torment; I donï¿½t feel comfortable. But she seemed very secure." Ask him about love in general, though, and he doesnï¿½t stop talking. "Iï¿½m attracted to real sexual women; my first reaction has to be a physical one, a grab-you-by-the-balls sort of thing. Then you find out what else is there. Itï¿½s great to be able to look at someone and say 'God, I really want you, anywhere, anytime.' To have that come back to you, with such passion. "Iï¿½ve always been attracted to strong women, " he continues, "women who have opinions and are doers. I like women who have some mystery to them, who seem to be different from me. But the main thing I want - it sounds so simplistic, and maybe even boring - is to find somebody I can be honest with. As an actor, I feel this particularly, because youï¿½re always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

Iï¿½ve heard or seen rumours written about someone Iï¿½ve been dating, gossip that theyï¿½re having an affair or whatever, and Iï¿½ll just call them up and say "Whatï¿½s going on?" His weakness in love - not surprisingly - is that heï¿½s "hyperconscious of the other person. I want to fulfill whatever they might need from me." He may have learned the hard way that he has to cool his overattentiveness. Rumour has it that Boyle got so claustrophobic with MacLachlan that she would periodically beg a friend to drive her into the desert. Still, MacLachlan wants "someone I can entrust with all my insecurities and vulnerabilities, and someone who will trust me with theirs. The idea would be the process of discovery would continue, that they could do this and not feel like you have to live in a secret world or have a dual life or have another side you donï¿½t want to show this person." A secret world. A dual life. MacLachlan buzzwords. "Sometimes, I think to myself, This is really idealistic.

But I know there are people who live like that. Itï¿½s worth the effort for me not to accept less." MacLachlan confers with Trial director David Jones For now, heï¿½s single and "kind of liking it. When you stop the noise of a relationship - I donï¿½t mean noise but activity - youï¿½re really left with what itï¿½s like to be with yourself. I find the range of emotions is wider. Thereï¿½s not someone there to go to or to look out for. I guess this is a bit of cartharic period." MacLachlan was always a good boy. His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a school-district public-relations director, were big on instilling values and giving Kyle and his two younger brothers enough freedom to make their own mistakes. "There was never a sense that they were putting down laws I had to overcome, " MacLachlan says over omelets in a restaurant in Pragueï¿½s Old Town. "I grew up with successful parents; they were my inspiration, I was never afraid of hard work. At all. We were taught that early on.

We were encourages to push forward, to strive for what we couldnï¿½t quite reach, to really go for it. Itï¿½s invaluable to have that work ethic now." In other words, he was as square as a block of Velveeta. David Nicholson, whoï¿½s known MacLachlan since they were 8 and who roomed with him when Kyle was attending the University of Washington, in Seattle, remembers him as "outgoing, friendly, with a hyperactive imagination. We could both be accused of geekishness, but despite his black horn-rimmed glasses - a family trait for all the MacLachlan boys got from their dad - Kyle was fairly attractive." A good student, he was in his first play at age 15. As planner of his high-school senior Prank Week, he and his gals pasted Farrah Fawcet posters of the insignia on the gym floor and switched classroom furniture all over the school. But his senior year was also the year his parents divorced, and a part of MacLachlan went into hiding. "I was shocked it had happened, " Nicholson says. "The MacLachlans always seemed to get along really well.

For a long time, I think, he internalized it, though I think it did have a deep impact on him. He was a very difficult person to read. much more so in the past than today. But when youï¿½re young and hanging out with the guys, it doesnï¿½t strike you as odd that you donï¿½t talk about things. Kyle is a private person. Even those who know him well agree on that." MacLachlan will say only "I think children are much more aware of what goes on around them much earlier than whe give them credit for. I think when youï¿½re sensitive to that, you tend to go underground with reality. I think at some point in a personï¿½s life, you have to reconcile the two, the surface stuff and the stuff in the caves. In the last five years, Iï¿½ve started wanting to explore whatï¿½s in there." In true Bly fashion, MacLachlan is getting closer to his father as he grows older. "The more I understand as a man, the more curious I am about his world and what it was like for him," he says. "I want to get beyond the courtesy stage.

My father and I have a ritual: Whenever I go home, we go out and play golf together. Itï¿½s our time to be together as men, doing something we both enjoy." His mother died of ovarion cancer shortly before Blue Velvet was released. He doesnï¿½t talk about her much - that is, until weï¿½ve wandered away from the restaurant into a cemetery in the Jewish Quarter of Prague. Because at one time Jews were restricted to this single graveyard, 100,000 people are buried twelve-deep here; 12,000 headstones teeter into one another on less than an acre of land. Itï¿½s early and the trees are still bare; crows caw overhead. MacLachlan keeps glancing up at them, joking nervously that they belong in a Lynch movie. He discusses his motherï¿½s death without a trace of self-pity, though. "My brothers and I, we were all there. We switched off her life-support, and we all just talked to her, told her we loved her and not to be afraid.

She was in a coma and had been given morphine, so she was out, but I think some part of her could understand that she wasnï¿½t alone, that we would go with her as far as we could go." Thereï¿½s another sound in the graveyard besides crows and MacLachlanï¿½s quiet voice. Itï¿½s giggling. Four 15-year-old Spanish girls on a school trip have been following MacLachlan at a respectful distance for some minutes; now they have him cornered, and they converge. "Please, please, an autography, a photo, please!" the curly blonde ringleader pants. MacLachlan starts to shake his head, but then he sees their flushed faces. "You have to understand, we have seen all the Twin Peaks!" So he poses for their photos and signs their pieces of paper with their names and his name and a little heart between them. When he draws the first heart, they gasp. The girls run off, clutching one another and squealing, and MacLachlan walks toward the graveyard exit, smiling. Itï¿½s not that simple.

The girls have alerted the rest of their classmates, and as MacLachlan rounds on a corner,aout sevety-five students charge him at full speed. Theyï¿½re fiecely eager, but he stays calm. He heads for the gate, signing an autograph here and there, stopping for one group photo in which kids hurl themselves into the crush of bodies around him. Moving fast, he squeezes out of the bottleneck exit and turns several corners, and gradually the pounding of feet on the cobblestones behind him dies down. "Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it," he says. "Shall we call a cab?" The film crew has moved to the 600-year-old Cathedral of St. Barbara in Kutnï¿½ Hora, a small town an hour outside of Prague. But the action is the same: MacLachlan is on the move again. Walk down the street towards the church. Cut. Try the door. Cut.

Paparazzi with long lenses circle the perimeter of the set, trying to catch a glimpse of Anthony Hopkins, whoï¿½s holed up in his trailer.(Heï¿½s playing a priest, and a shot of Hannibal Lecter in a clerical collar would fetch big bucks.) Hopkins is still glowing from his new Oscar, and MacLachlan is anxious about keeping up. Their first scenes together last night were smooth, if a bit unnerving. "Kyle, do a little David Lynch," Hopkins said between shots. (Hopkins had worked with Lynch on The Elephant Man.) "Well, Anthony," MachLachlan bellowed, echoing Lynch`s strained singsong, "thereï¿½s a very interesting story behind these frescoes." The two cracked up, then grew sober for a few takes. After the longest of these, in which the priest demonstrates his power of Josef K, Hopkins turned to MacLachlan and said: "Are you acting now?" "Just a little," MacLachlan said. Hopkins shrugged. "Well, itï¿½s your career." They laughed again, perhaps a little less easily.

"I always like to do that with other actors, especially younger actors," Hopkins said later. "Itï¿½s nice because it keeps everything very relaxed." Tell that to MacLachlan. He looked as if he was down to the last ten seconds on a bomb detonator. While the crew prepares for his final approach to the cathedral, he falls into one of the canvas directorï¿½s chairs set up on the grass and deliberately tumbles over backward. A few of the crew members gasp, worried heï¿½s hurt himself. "Must be something wrong with the chair," he says, then settles into the next one, flipping it, too, onto its back. Theresa the assistant costume designer brushes leaves and twigs off his black tweed coat. MacLachlan stands there half-sheepish. "Well, I had to do something," he says. Having Hopkins around has only increased the agitation MacLachlan feels when he ponders the notion of stardom. Later, at a coffee bar in central Prague, MacLachlan orders coffee and smokes like mad, trying to put his finger on what bothers him most about the idea. Hollywoodï¿½s been good to him.

Right after college graduation, MacLachlan landed a coveted spot in the repertory company of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he played Romeo. While doing Tartuffe in Seattle, he was spotted by a casting agent for Dune, who flew him to Los Angeles (his first visit) to meet Dino De Laurentiis in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Being plucked from obscurity to play the lead in a $42 million film has its price, though; for MacLachlan, it was a contract that bound him to four Dune sequels and two other movies, and a guarantee he would not work, or even seek work, in films until Dune had been released. So a year after heï¿½d finished the film, he found himself staring at his face on a huge Dune billboard in Times Square "and I canï¿½t get a job, I canï¿½t get arrested, " he says. Because Dune was a box-office disaster, the contract dissolved like cotton candy in the rain. Work on Lynchï¿½s next film, Blue Velvet, was postponed indefinitely.

During the wait, MacLachlan says he fell into "a depression, a dark, dark place, where I questioned everything I was doing." But even in that state, he made a decision that influenced his career: He turned down the role in Platoon that eventually went to Charlie Sheen and waited for Blue Velvet. "I didnï¿½t see a character developped in Platoon at all, " he says."The journey of the character in Blue Velvet was so much more fascinating to me. But sometimes I wonder how it would have turned out had I done it, how my life would have been different." "None of us were surprised fame happened to Kyle," Nicholson says. "He wanted it, he worked hard at it, and he got it." Now, of course, he questions it. "What is it about me people respond to?" he says. "What did those girls in the graveyard see? What do they want?" My answer - kindness, decency, nice guy who understands nasty impulses - doesnï¿½t satisfy him. "Those things, theyï¿½re there, but theyï¿½re pieces of me," he says edgily.

"Thereï¿½s more in there than people see." Okay, what else is there? Silence. Long silence. "I feel like thereï¿½s more, and youï¿½re asking me what is there, " he says. He laughs uncomfortably. "I donï¿½t know. More. I keep going back to this stupid tunnel image, but these early thirties are really confusing me. Because I was bopping along and doing these roles; I knew I was a good actor, and I was having success at it. I surrounded myself with a lot of great advisers, and everything was okay. But just recently Iï¿½ve started to say 'Thereï¿½s more to it.' There has to be. Itï¿½s shaking up my world a little bit." From outside the tunnel. what Kyle MacLachlan wants looks pretty simple. He wants to figure out his life and still hang on to some mystery. He wants to be more than an ordinary guy. He doesnï¿½t yet realize what a feat ordinary is. "Thereï¿½s a great cartoon," he says, stubbing out his smoke.

"You can see an old man with a cane taking a curtain call, and the crowd is going crazy. Next, you see him backstage, pulling off the old-man costume, and you see heï¿½s a strapping young guy. In the last frame, you see him at home, pulling off the young-man mask, and heï¿½s actually the old man with the cane." He pauses, grinning, his eyes focussed far away. "I thought, Ohh, the perfect disguise." ____________________ Senior writer Johanna Schneller profiled Michael Keaton in the June GQ ‘Twin Peaks’ to return to television as Showtime event series - NY Daily News ‘Twin Peaks’ to return to television as Showtime event series ‘Twin Peaks’ to return to television as Showtime event series ‘Twin Peaks’ is returning to television 25 years after it became a pop culture sensation. It centered on the death of high-schooler Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee, above). (ABC via Getty Images) Updated: Monday, October 6, 2014, 1:44 PM Laura Palmer remains dead, but “Twin Peaks” is coming back to life.

The fondly remembered and relentlessly bizarre cult TV series of the early 1990s will be revived by Showtime as a nine-episode series that will be filmed next year and air in 2016. David Lynch and Mark Frost, who created the often-surreal show, will co-write all nine episodes. Lynch will direct. No cast has been announced for the revival. The original series, which ran on ABC from April 1990 to June 1991, starred Kyle MacLachlan as agent Dale Cooper, who came to the odd little Northwestern town of Twin Peaks to solve Palmer’s murder. The original series ran on ABC from April 1990 to June 1991 and starred Kyle MacLachlan. (ABC via Getty Images) He did so before the show’s 30-episode run concluded. But with a large cast off oddballs played by actors like Piper Laurie, Sherilyn Fenn, Joan Chen and Russ Tamblyn, “Twin Peaks” raised other questions, and Showtime said in its announcement Monday that the new series will address many of those.

Showtime President David Nevins said in a statement, “To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.' " David Lynch is quarterbacking the nine-episode event series. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) Also returning to co-write the series is Mark Frost. (Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage) “The mysterious and special world of ‘Twin Peaks’ is pulling us back” said Lynch and Frost in a statement. “We're very excited. May the forest be with you.” The show sparked the 1992 movie “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” “Twin Peaks” helped set a pattern for subsequent TV phenomena whose fan buzz and loyalty exceeded its modest viewership. Its premiere audience was strong, but by the spring of 1991 it was ranking 85th among 89 prime-time broadcast shows. ABC insisted Palmer’s murder be resolved that spring, an order many saw as the network’s early signal the show would be canceled. Which it was.

Frost and Lynch later said ABC had crippled the show by shifting its timeslots, taking it off the air several times for Gulf War specials and insisting the Palmer murder be solved — which Lynch said the creators had not intended to do. Showtime will lead up to the new production by re-airing the original series in its entirety.

Question: Kyle MacLachlan played agent Dale Cooper in which early 1990s US TV series?
Answer: Twin Peaks